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Physical Identity Management for Airports
Adverse incidents within the commercial
aviation industry over the last several years (not to mention increased terrorist activities) have enhanced the threat
to airport security in the United States and abroad.
Now more than ever, physical identity management systems
that automate the identification and authentication
of employees, contractors and third parties are critical
to managing the siloed processes and physical access
control systems (PACS) within airports. It appears to be
a complicated and daunting task but one that cannot
be deferred, for the greater safety of airports, and
their airline affiliates, passengers, employees, tenants,
contractors, and vendors.
The majority of today’s airports have siloed
systems and applications that manage and process employee
identity credentials for facility access. Access to
assets/areas such as airside vehicles, parking structures,
smart card-based access cards and issuing transportation
authority clearance for employees or contractors from
the Transportation Security Authority (TSA) or Canadian
Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) are all managed
separately, in different systems. As a result, manual
and redundant processing is the unfortunate standard,
leading to costly human errors and long processing times.
Manage Airport
Facility Access Through Role-based Access Control
Quantum Secure’s SAFE suite
of products addresses this problem by providing a supervisory
management system layer to automate manual workflows
and processes, enabling airport authorities to manage
facility access of users and groups through role-based
access control. SAFE continually checks against no-fly
lists, white lists and other databases and information
sources.
In addition to IDMS, HR & LDAP systems and IT applications,
SAFE also interfaces with airport-specific systems such as:
The SAFE solution for airports includes:
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SAFE PIV Enrollment
Station provides ability to seamlessly
enroll a PIV card (or a Smartcard) into the central
physical identity management system and all the
backend PACS based upon policy rules. During the
process, the enrollment station can also capture
all the relevant identity-related information such
as biometric, photographic, and biographical data
and bind them together at the central physical IDM
level
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SAFE Centralized Web-based
Badging Manager helps in creating and managing
card templates for personalization for various airport
groups. SAFE Badging Manager can print the smartcard
using personalized design templates including encoding
the biometric information and other unique identifiers
relevant to the cardholder
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SAFE Compliance Regulator
ensures that all transactions are logged and monitored
in real time during its lifecycle - from enrollment
/ issuance of the card to deactivation. All exceptions
are handled as and when they occur via intelligent
policies, minimizing hours of daily manual processes
SAFE’s technical architecture is designed to
handle data communication securely, with guarantee of
service across LAN/WAN networks and among multiple
organizations. For example, an airport can share information
with another airport related to an identity of a person
in a secure and user defined method, if both are running
SAFE server.
With SAFE, once-redundant and costly efforts
associated with airport identity management and security
for controlling access to different physical environments
is now simplified through a common integrated framework
that works for both physical and IT security departments.
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